IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD.
If wo knew tlio cares and trials, Knew the efforts all in vain, Ami the bitter disappointment, Understood the loss and gain— Would the grim, eternal roughness Seem —1 wonder —just the same? Should we help where now we hinder? Should we pity where we blame? Ah! we judge each other harshly, Knowing not life’s hidden force — Knowing not the fount of action Is less turbid at its source! Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good; And we’d love each other better If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives That surround each other’s lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives. Often we would find it better Just to judge all actions good; We should love each other better If we only understood. —Rudyard Kipling.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 4
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142IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1647, 7 December 1916, Page 4
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